Carboniferous Period

This is the fifth period in the Paleozoic Era.

In this period, temperatures were relatively warm at first, only to cool down by the end, due to glaciation on Gondwana.

Life still flourished in land and sea, more prominently on land. Reptiles, and the first insects appeared in this era, such as scorpions. Ammonites appeared in the early Carboniferous, and were very well in the seas. Trilobites were less common, and were endangered.

At the end of the period, the Carboniferous Rainforest Collapse happened, where 20-25% of plants and marine animals went extinct, but not too many as other events. However, this wasn’t considered a mass extinction.